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When a Leaked Microsoft Durango devkit appeared on Assemblergames forum for sale at $10,00, most thought its was a joke, but today many are reporting that this Dev kit is for real.​

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The Dev kit, which is said to feature an Intel CPU, NVIDIA GPU, and “ an eight-core processor.” The fact that the kit looks like a plain black PC tower running a regular debug launcher led many to believe it was nothing more than a hoax, ​

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For those of you who don't know Durango, is the code name for the next Xbox console aka Xbox720​

Digital Foundry claims development sources agreed Durango is a 64-bit system, and also confirmed the authenticity of the interface seen in the images above.​

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DaE The person who had leaked the shots, suggests that the current devkits were sent to studios in Feburary and feature Intel CPUs and a graphics card from NVIDIA. He also claims that the Durango kit has more than 8GB of memory, and that the hardware is 64-bit in nature.​

Even if this is real, does it really confirm anything new besides the fact that there are basic devkits out there for the next gen Xbox? I mean, as far as I can tell, none of the reported info is really different from that supposed document leak, and as well, the pictures are so, so generic. Of the pictures available, you never even see anything that you can confirm to be the devkit. The pics of the guy's computer screen are generic pictures, most of which just look like a screensaver. Then, with that code thing, I feel like anybody with any idea of how to slap some of whatever kind of code that is together could easily get a fake image made up.

The short of it is probably to take this with a shaker of salt, unless there's something I'm missing that should make this actually, totally believable.

A report carried by Digital Foundry claims that a series of leaked images of an Xbox 720 dev kit, have been authenticated by developers. The image reportedly show the new Microsoft Xbox 720 Durango dev kit, and were posted on the Assembler Games developer forum as a sale item. Digital Foundry claims unnamed industry sources working on games for next-gen consoles have verified that the images of the Durango Devkit are authentic.

I love when someone on assembler gets a HOT EXCLUSIVE BETA. They sometimes show off images with some text related to 'fucking hell this is assembler games' covering up most of it. In this case the guy just hides most all of his cool stuff to look at behind a piece of white paper. I'm a fancy collector, stop looking! Who wants to bet DaE releases nothing and shoves the tower in a closet?

Nice, I've always seemed to like the earlier 'desktop' devkits than the later more console looking ones, no idea why

Haven't been on assmblergames for ages, used to lurk there quite alot, and have posted before when I was having trouble deducing what Xbox devkit I owned (it was missing the Jewel, which was the main way to tell a DVT-3 from a DVT-4 i believe) Still regret selling that

Here's hoping some more info comes out from it, all seems rather vague still.

Why of course the Devkit will have more resources than the retail units - it needs to be capable to run the game/application binary and the debugging layer at the same time. I'm quite impressed by the specs though and I can't wait to see more.